On This Water

Stay or drive

Two desks, one day

this morning. Same method. Same 1–10. Pick the water, not the drive you already decided.

Left desk

florida · Flamingo

Florida Bay / Flamingo

4.2OF 10

Today

high

Redfish are the hunt — flood Snake Bight and the Flamingo banks — backcountry reds and snook, not oceanside bones. Heat is the clock — first light or last light.

2 mph SE · thunderstorms · incoming

+0.37 ft

Observed minus predicted. Read the water, not just the printout.

Where

  • FL - Florida Bay (Flamingo) · 5.2mangrove edge on a incoming tide is a workable match.
Open the Flamingo brief

Right desk

bahamas · Eleuthera

Eleuthera / Exuma edge

7.8OF 10

Today

medium

Permit should be the day — the cut and the Exuma-edge banks as they fall.

7 mph ESE · 1% rain · outgoing

Where

  • Eleuthera east ocean flats · 7.0hard flat on a outgoing tide is a workable match.
Open the Eleuthera brief